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Visual Thinking through Interface Design

Interface design is hard work, well, at least good interface design is hard work.  It’s often under appreciated.  Visual thinking principles from other parts of the industry are also applied not just to the process of designing interfaces, but actually to the messages that the interface communicates.  There are indications for what can be done, what can’t be done, how it can be done, and provide feedback about it’s working while it is being done.  They need to communicate clearly, yet not intrusively.  They even need to think about training and performance support.  So, we’re excited to add Luke Wroblewski to the list of facilitators as we continue to round out the software design portion of VizThink ‘08.

LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used every day by more than 750 million people. He is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. and Founder of LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy. Luke applies design methodologies, skills, and principles to create and refine the strategy and user experience of new or existing products.

Luke also publishes Functioning Form, the leading online publication for interaction designers. He authored a book on Web interface design principles titled Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability. Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at various conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.’s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products and internal tools and processes. Luke also taught interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.